Brewers television broadcaster Brian Anderson blogs about baseball in Milwaukee.

A’s to Q’s

Wow, thanks for all the great comments and email’s. Means a lot. I’ll fire up a new entry every Monday and respond to questions/comments on Friday’s…Deal? I still have a few events in Texas (Spurs, College Hoops) to clean up before I join the team for good and am spending most of my free time throttled in full Brewer download. Some great nuggets. Like the fact that there was a "Milwaukee Brewers" team in 1901…led by player/manager Hugh Duffy (HOF ’45). "Sir" Hugh was the ultimate free agent during an era when such a benefit did not exist…bouncing around between rival leagues taking full advantage of his extraordinary batsman-ship (.324 lifetime hitter). He hit for the highest single season batting average in MLB history in 1894 (.440- some have it at .438) on his way to the Triple Crown. He was also credited with being Ted Williams first hitting coach. Which basically went something like this: "Ted, go in there and get a hit, just like I used to…" "Yessir, Sir…(hit)…How was that, Sir?" "Perfect, Ted…come back tomorrow and I’ll coach you some more!"

OK…here we go:

– Yes, there will be Spring Training webcast’s this year. I’ll be there with Bill for all non-radio games and we’d love to make it as interactive as possible and have some fun. Stay tuned.

– To South Side Rob and Big Rygg: I have no idea how to enter the Brewer Nation into my blog (unless I just did?) but I’m all for it as long as you keep it clean for the kids. And yes, Jeff from Minneapolis has had a good week on his MySpace site after the Stevie Ray Vaughan link. I don’t know Jeff but I’m guessing he never realized he had such a big following from Brewer fans. Good work, Jeff!

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